The glass is full of milk.

There's a crack in the cup so the contents are leaking.

KB Now, Steve, do you think it's here? Yes or no?

And if you fill the cup with local agriculture from small farmers, you have a transformative effect.

I slid a piece of paper under the cup, grabbed the wriggling cockroach and dumped it in the toilet.

The weight of the mercury creates a vacuum in the top of the tube.

It is true, and I would say that the glass is half full in terms of our performance for last year's Conference on Disarmament.

However, the glass is half empty view shows that those situations confront the international community with constantly growing threats.

I am sure that the glass is half full approach would suggest that it is at least good that those people are no longer fighting each other.

So I was having a coffee in Portland, and half of a latte in and the little board in the cafe all of a sudden starts showing me that the next bus is coming in three minutes and the train is coming in 16 minutes.

But what I'd like to talk about today is the fact that this morning, about a billion people on Earth or one out of every seven woke up and didn't even know how to fill this cup.

The tea leaf paradox describes a phenomenon where tea leaves in a cup of tea migrate to the center and bottom of the cup after being stirred rather than being forced to the edges of the cup, as would be expected in a spiral centrifuge.

The ones that terrorize the Japanese are big several centimetres long, and, unlike a house fly, a moth or a jumping spider, cannot be ignored. They must be dealt with if you ever want to sleep soundly again.